Discrimination Law

This book consolidates the law on discrimination, together with relevant statistics, sociological material and material exploring the aims, objectives and weaknesses of the law. The subject-matter of ant-discrimination requires students and practitioners to have a grasp of the social and economic contexts in which the law operates. Discrimination law is an area of law of ever growing political and social interest. This is the first book to cover all aspects of discrimination law under one cover. While naturally focusing on gender and race discrimination, it also covers disability, religion, pregnancy, age and sexual orientation. As well as extracts from the key cases, the author has included extracts from key works on the sociology and economics of discrimination, as well as facing up to the philosophical and practical questions of what the aim of such legislation should be.